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WIP Sketch

You hear something moving in the depths of the forest...a Chair Steed makes its presence known...

Hylophobia, Zoophobia, and Epiplaphobia (Fear of Forests, Animals, and Furnitures)

Based on a drawing prompt from my asifa-south community discord: “Draw weird phobias.”

Starting off the year with a color test and some new creatures.

I’ve been wanting to figure out a simpler way to color.  For when I don’t want to do full painting but don’t want to l leave it in flats.

Mirror Trevini and a Tea creature got to be the first test.

Tea beast are like the mirror worlds horses/camels.  They are more camel based then horses but these are the guys you see in their place.  Tea beast come in all shades and finishes just like tea pots.  I like to think in the desert area is where cold tea beast are bred so riders are kept cool and in the snowy area hot ones are bred to keep riders warm.

Females are way easier to deal with then males but when you bond with one you got a friend for life.  Riders usually sit in front of or behind the tea beast top.  If you’re riding without a partner it sits between your legs.

Trevini gets her own Tea Beast when Labrum introduces her to them when they need to travel long distances.

Also Mirror Trevini walking around on all fours.  Because Trevini does that in any mode.

More Tea beast and sketches.  I have the one of Labrum and his Tea beast started in shading but I may just keep it in flats.  He likes to decorate her and make her pretty.

Also I realized when I gave her and the male Tea beast lantern decorations I needed to at least show one of the lantern creatures I haven’t shown a lot.  Labrum is scared to death of “spiders” or as the mirror world calls them Many Legged Lanterns.  They have that name to differentiate them from the walking (four legged) lantern and floating lanterns.  Many Legged ones creep him out.  The best part is Many Legged come in sizes from small to house sizes.

Labrum’s Tea Beast has a replica legless lantern as decoration while his dad’s tea beast has a replica floating lantern.

Many Legged, Walking, and Floating lanterns are typically fire elementals but can come in electric variety.  I like to think only walking lanterns have been “domesticated”.  Trevini loves Many Legged Lanterns because she likes bugs but that’s another story.

Both Labrum and Trevini’s Tea Beast are sweet.  Labrum’s dad Tea beast is a pain in the ass to all except his dad.  The Tea Beast with the handle over the back are usually seen as stubborn as all get out.  Labrum’s dad is a big guy so he needs a big Tea Beast.  Labrum was raised as a knight but he was also raised as a farm boy taking care of Tea Beat so he knows how to deal with his dads beast..sorta.  Trevini is scared of the size of him since he can just kick her across the world while Labrum yells at him.

Model for my 2d animation class.  We’re starting with After Effects and the teacher wanted us to draw someone we haven’t before.

So it gave me the chance to introduce Diamond.  In the Mirror world there are people based on the deck of cards.  Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, etc.  Heart is actually one of Labrum’s coworkers who is bossy as hell.

Hearts are the flyers/assassins of the group.  Diamonds are the mages of the group.  I’m just referring to her as Diamond for now until I come up with a proper name.  I wanted to do something more with flowing robes but because we’re rigging in After Effects I wanted to go with something that wouldn’t be a headache.  That and I think she looks cute in this?  Originally I wanted to hide her feet but her little shoes looked cute.

This is probably Diamond when she was younger because I like the idea that the Diamonds are pretty quiet compared to the more loud and boastful Hearts.  But the Diamonds are super tall.

Right now, just tiny Diamond showing off her clothes.

I get to figure out how to rig in after effects now.

Trevini in her mirror form playing with the elements.

I’m actually really happy with those clouds and water.

Apparently she’s pulling the elements around her so hard the clouds are like WELL HERE WE GO. She does have an ability that deals with breaking the sky but this time it was lets have the clouds spin.

The sand didn’t like me but I’ll make it better next time.

Finally got one of my major projects to a point where I’m going to call it finished.

I have been working on this along with a couple other projects at the same time.  When I decided I would put this through the full rendering process most of my attention went to finishing Labrum.

This was me actually liking one of my sketches I posted a while back ( http://singingrabbitskull.tumblr.com/post/145671137431/sketches-gooo-labrum-model-which-i-was-using-to ) and deciding to redo it making him much more lively.

During the coloring process I ended up changing his clothes from the purple and green I originally had going on to this more blue/white base which I ended up liking better along with replacing the metal part around his neck to mimic a holder to the purple cloth.  I might switch between the two.

And while sketching him I realized that since he’s a Knight he needs more armor.  I’m not sure if I decided to make it red from the start or because I saw some cool armor in red and didn’t want it to be all silver.  At some point I might do a mock up of what his full armor set would look like.  Labrum’s a capable fighter and I think wears armor just to show his rank but prefers not to scare people away.  He’s a very happy go lucky guy and prefers making you laugh over chasing you.  He’s pretty much Trevini’s foil during her bad days.

At some point I also thought it would be funny to give him a candelabra as a weapon.  Labrum currently is the only Candle Person; a living candelabra will be very different from a Candle Person.  I’m toying with the idea that the candelabra is also alive and actually acts snake like.  Here I just have it in a default state.  I like the idea it can act default, and then suddenly it just goes snake on you and makes you go WHAT.

I toyed with rendering armor and light in this.  As much as I hate and complain about doing full render color I do enjoy the turn out atleastmostly.  To keep myself going I typically have a ton of mid process saves to see how much as changed.

Sketches gooo

Labrum model which I was using to try and figure out the exact shapes I want for his body.  Getting there but not quite there yet.

Mirror Trevinin stress transformation

aaand Labrum’s extreme dislike of Lantern Spiders.  Trevini doesn’t seem bothered, at least not by the babies.  Lantern Spiders are huge when full grown.